Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) – The average life expectancy in Hesse fell during the corona pandemic. According to calculations by the Federal Institute for Population Research, in 2021 it was 0.7 years lower for newborn boys and 0.31 years lower for newborn girls than it was before the pandemic. The life expectancy determined relates to the people born in the corresponding year.
In 2019, the average value in Hesse was 79.37 years for boys and 83.64 years for girls, as the federal institute announced on Wednesday in Wiesbaden. Two years later it was 78.67 years for boys and 83.32 years for girls.
Across Germany, life expectancy fell by 0.6 years to 78.11 years for boys and by 0.37 years to 83.12 years for girls between 2019 and 2021, the data shows. Before the start of the pandemic, life expectancy in Germany had increased by around 0.1 years annually.
Life expectancy calculates the average length of life that newborns would live if the age-specific mortality rates recorded in one year were held constant over the next 115 years.
